Electronic resources

E-resources available on the territory of the library

MPs and their staff may access the databases listed below via the computers located in the Information Centre for Deputies.

Our fee-paying public patrons – including researchers and university students – are also free to use these databases on the territory of the library. (Excluding Complex Jogtár, which may also be used with a free registration card).

English language databases

Cambridge University Press is one of oldest publishing companies
in the world offering 330 peer-reviewed university journals at present.
Most of CUP journals are of fundamental importance in many
disciplines and fields of study including humanities, social and natural
sciences. Publications related to applied sciences, environmental
studies, agriculture, neurological sciences, medical biology, history,
linguistics, political science and international relations are
particularly acknowledged by professional communities. All journals
published and co-published by Cambridge University Press can be accessed
via Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) that contains 1.144.200 articles at
the moment that amount to 6 million pages. CJO users download more
than 1,9 million articles per month.

A
collection of periodicals from various disciplines. Thousands of mostly
social sciences periodicals, dailies and weeklies from North America
and Europe. (In most cases the full text of the articles.) Articles in
German, French and Hungarian are regularly being added.

Designed for academic institutions, EBSCO’s multidisciplinary database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by offering access to more than 7300 peer-reviewed full-text journals as well as indexed abstracts of 12500 other content including magazines, periodicals, reports, books and more. With English still dominant, the collection contains a large number of German, French, Spanish, Italian and even Hungarian language documents, typically in the field of political science, communication, cultural studies and sociology.

EBSCO’s Historical Abstracts with Full Text is the definitive full-text database covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century to the present. It includes approx. 800 000 records from more than 540 full-text journals and 140 full-text books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period. Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, this authoritative database provides selective indexing of historical articles from thousands of journals in a wide variety of languages. Coverage includes world history, military history, women’s history, history of education and much more.

This database includes over seventy million pages of legal history and over 1500 law-related periodicals in English. It carries the full text of US congressional reports, the documents of famous lawsuits as from the early 18th century, legal literature from Aristotle to the 20th century, documents of the United Nations, all the international agreements that the USA has signed, the documents of Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as from 1938.

The Law Collection of Oxford University Press Journals contains 56 full-text, high impact factor legal journals dating back to 1996. They include such well-known and prestigious periodicals as Current Legal Problems, Journal of Environmental Law, British Journal of Criminology and Human Rights Law Review. The volumes of the subscribed journals covering all the major research areas of international law are available for download via the gateway to Oxford online academic resources for our fee-paying patrons. Meanwhile the number of Open Access titles such as the Journal of Cybersecurity and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences is also steadily increasing.

Databases in Hungarian

Over
60 periodicals in 40 disciplines as published by the aforementioned
Akadémiai Kiadó. Fourteen of those periodicals have an impact factor.
The articles are searchable by author, title and abstract and their full
text can be downloaded in pdf in the same format as the print copy,
going back to 1998.

Unabridged bilingual dictionaries in six languages as published by the Hungarian publishing company, Akadémiai Kiadó; monolingual dictionaries, encyclopedias and a dictionary of the terms used by institutions of the European Union are also included.

In recent years, Osiris Publishing Company has become one of the major and most prestigious academic and literary publishers in Hungary within the disciplines of humanities and social sciences. Since its establishment in 1994 it has also served as an intellectual centre for widely respected researchers and authors of various fields of study. The publisher’s academic volumes, university textbooks and high-quality general knowledge works are intended to the Hungarian intelligentsia, university students as well as educated, open-minded audiences. On average, the company publishes 200 titles annually, the majority of which are written in Hungarian and a smaller number consists of translations. The digital collection at present offers full-text access to 1750 volumes published by Osiris.

The vast majority of content provided in the database was created in cooperation with L’Harmattan’s long term academic, higher-education, professional and cilvil partner institutions. The high-profile academic volumes of the L’Harmattan portfolio are well completed by a range of literary works. In the publisher’s digital collection, regular patrons of subscribing institutions may get access to almost 1500 titles, around 10.000 chapters and 390.000 pages of digitized content equipped with full-text search.

A continously growing full-text digital collection that can be searched by authors and titles of articles in periodicals and entries in encyclopedias and yearbooks. Results can be refined by date and subject areas. More than 8 million pages are available including the following renowned periodicals: Budapesti Szemle (1857-1940), Fővárosi Közlöny (1890-2005), Hadtörténelmi Közlemények (1888-2009), Népszava (1873-2014), Vasárnapi Újság (1854-1921), Magyarország tiszti cím- és névtára (1873-1944).

A cutting edge online platform for the most complete collection of statutes in force in Hungary that also ensures access to court decisions, commentaries, sample documents and a wide range of law-related professional databases, e-documents and other legal content.

NAVA serves as a single central archive to collect, preserve and provide access to the programmes of all the major national television and radio stations in Hungary. As required by law, NAVA maintains the depository archives of Hungarian or Hungary-related programmes broadcast by M1, M2, Duna (public TV stations), RTL Klub and TV2 (the two major commercial TV channels) since 1 January 2006.

Apart from legal deposits, NAVA also provides access to 100 Hungarian fiction films from the Hungarian National Film Archive, the exam projects of the University of Theatre and Film Arts and Mediawave festival films.

The NAVA catalogue together with all the metadata and 1-minute previews can be freely searched, and Hungarian World News as well as the above mentioned university exam projects are also publicly available. However, the full range of this rich audio-visual content is only available via NAVA-spots i.e. schools and educational centres, museums, archives, audio-visual archives and public libraries including the Library of the Hungarian Parliament.

* Electronic Information Service (EISZ):The Electronic Information Service provides access to (mainly non-Hungarian) online databases as sponsored by the EISZ base programme, TÁMOP: Hungary’s Social Renewal Operational Programme, and from contributions by member organizations of EISZ. In 2012 EISZ had permission to provide access to 29 online databases. In addition, our library has access to the EBSCO database and Arcanum’s Digital Knowledge Base. The EISZ national programme uses a country-wide licence for providing access to crucial electronic databases to higher education institutions and researchers. EISZ has managed to increase the international competitiveness of the Hungarian colleges, universities and non-profit research institutes by securing increased access to information. EISZ has been established for the very purpose of ensuring the broadest possible access to value-added international scientific information. The EISZ national programme has become an indispensable part of the work of researchers in Hungary. EISZ provides access to scholarly databases all around Hungary and as such has become an organic component of the Hungarian research infrastructure. It includes bibliographic information and full text versions of current periodicals, specialized articles and scientific publications as well as databases that are essential for research.↩